Nature Quotes
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.Francis Bacon
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.Anatole France
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.Denis Diderot
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.Sir Francis Bacon
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.Vincent Van Gogh
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.Cyril Connolly
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.Macneile Dixon
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.Plato
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.R. Buckminster Fulle
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.Cicero
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beeche
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.T. T. Munge
I am at two with nature.Woody Allen
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.Sterne
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.Robert Hutchins
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Man is by nature a political animal.Aristotle, Politics
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.Bill Wulf
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.Jose Vasconcelos
Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.John Milton
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
For those who intend to discover and to understand, not to indulge in conjectures and soothsaying, and rather than contrive imitation and fabulous worlds plan to look deep into the nature of the real world and to dissect it - - For them everything must be sought in things themselves.Francis Bacon
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten much as we can easily destroy our puny selves.Stephen Jay Gould
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.Sydney Smith
It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.Francis Bacon
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
The world is too much with us late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powersLittle we see in Nature that is oursWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon.William Wordsworth
The nature of men and women - Their essential nature - Is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.W. Somerset Maugham
Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.Richard Feynman
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.Jacob Brownowski
